The Princess Bride

Bring your Valentine to the Music Box for THE PRINCESS BRIDE, the fairy tale that puts the “comedy” in “romantic comedy.” Fun for all ages, this inter... Read more

Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Director Jacques Tourneur once said of Barbara Stanwyck: “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.” With a career that spanned six de... Read more

The Miracle Woman

Part of: Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Based largely upon real life evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the play Bless you Sister, and Sinclair Lewis' controversial and oft-banned 1927 novel... Read more

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah. 

By Design

Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If on... Read more

Joe Dirt

David Spade reinvents himself as the plucky, freewheelin’, mullet-sportin’ janitor of the road, JOE DIRT. This indelible late night comedy follows gun... Read more

Valentine

“Everything’s fine, it’s just that men suck.” Paige, Kate, Shelley, Lily, and Dorothy all remained quasi-good friends ever since middle school, but no... Read more

Union Pacific

Part of: Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Union Pacific begins with President Lincoln’s signing of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862, firing the starting gun of the sprint pitting the Union Pac... Read more

Brothers from Another Planet

We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Playing off the multiverse fanaticism and superhero craze prominent in today’s pop culture, SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE burst onto the scene to... Read more

The Chicago Film Society Presents

The Chicago Film Society comes to the Music Box for all-celluloid screenings of classic & underseen features, short subjects, trailer reels, and other... Read more

Written on the Wind

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

Perhaps the most anxious and lurid of Sirk's incredible run of melodramas for Universal-International, Written on the Wind is a soap opera laid in a T... Read more

Strange and Found

Chicago VHS all-stars, Joe Pickett (Found Footage Fest) and Scott Miller (Strange Tapes Zine) have a combined VHS collection of 15,000 tapes and will... Read more

White Chicks

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans), accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to esc... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films

BUTTERFLY (Dir. Florence Miailhe, 15 mins, France)A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life, from his rise to fame to surviving Au... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films

BUTCHER’S STAIN (Dir. Meyer Levinson-Blount, 26 mins, Israel)Samir, a Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket, is accused of tearing dow... Read more

Iced

February 20 & 21, bundle up and follow our tracks through the polar vortex to the Music Box Theatre where it's just as cold inside—because we're plung... Read more

Blade

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade – half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristo... Read more